THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE
Photograph by Jacob Gayer
HOME OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
The headquarters of this, the largest scientific society in the world, with more than 8oo,ooo
members, is at the corner of M and Sixteenth Streets (see also pages 586 and 669). The
editorial offices and The Society's library are located here. A commodious annex near the
GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE printing plant accommodates a part of the clerical staff.
than a memorable panorama of scenery
and history-a picture that epitomizes
American transportation. The eye catches
speeding automobile and farmer's wagon,
electric train, trolley car, and puffing
freight engine, canal-boat and river craft,
and frequently an airplane or two hover
above.
Washingtonians have become accus
tomed to the last-mentioned or they
would be a stiff-necked generation from
sky-gazing at craft that range from the
tiny air-boat which landed neatly in a nar
row street to the giant dirigibles and sky
writing planes of more recent memory.
Down a steep bank, as you start up
river, a barefoot boy is calling hoarsely
to mules whose placidity is akin to the
lazy, chocolate waters of the canal along
which they trudge. The "captain" of the
coal-boat cargo lolls on "deck" with his
corn-cob pipe. Through the cabin win-